moonslav59
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$53M/4 for Imanaga is not chump change, but it's not a ton of money, either. It's about $14.3M/season which was less than Gio.
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CBS says: May 7 Bello & Pivetta May 15 Whitlock -
It's good to have Devers back, even if just as a DH, and O'Neill being back helps, too, but we still have a ton of our top players out: Gio (#1 SP) out all season Story (#1 SS and maybe 4th or 5th best hitter) out for the rest of the season Casas (#1 1Bman and maybe the 2nd or 3rd best hitter) out for a long time (CBS says JUN 14.) Grissom (#1 2Bman and maybe a top 6 or 7 projected batter.) CBS says APR 30 Bello (#2 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 7) Pivetta (#3 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 7) Whitlock (#4-6 SP) unknown time out (CBS says May 15) So, basically 4 of our top 6 SP'ers are out and 3 of our everyday 9 are out, too. Plus, role players: Romy G (utility IF) May 10? Campbell (top 7-10 RPer on team) May 7? Heineman (3rd C) May 2? Hendriks (knew he'd be out until maybe August Murphy & Mata (Pen depth) Fulmer (knew he'd be out all year)
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LOL. The main point, however, is that if you make a suggestion, and it doesn't happen, you were wrong, wrong, WRONG!
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I can't believe we can do no better than Joely. Our RHPs have done better vs LHBs than RHBs, so far, so I'm not sure we really need a token LH'd RP'er to go along with Bernardino. RHPs vs LHB .585 OPSA RHPs vs RHB .647 OPSA Our LHPs are at .707 v LHBs, but Bernardino is at .610 (Joely .666.)
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We made it through 14 games before needing SP'er depth. Since Criswell's start in game 15, we have use depth guys 5 times in 13 games: Win Criswell Loss Bernardino Win Winkowski Win Criswell Loss Anderson 3-2 record
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How long can this team hold out with starters/openers like Wink, Anderson, Criswell and Bernardino? We have played 27 games and have started 9 pitchers. With Gio out all year, these are our 2-10 slots pitchers. Kind of amazing we are 14-13, despite these facts.
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Cora is waiting for him to go 4 for 5 before resting him- preferably vs a LHP.
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Just about all the top AL teams lost, yesterday. ALE 16-9 BAL 17-10 NYY 14-13 BOS 13-14 TBR 13-14 TOR Wild Card Race 18-8 CLE ALC 16-9 BAL ALE 14-12 SEA ALW 17-10 KCR WC1 17-10 NYY WC1 14-12 DET WC3 14-13 BOS -0.5 14-13 TEX -0.5 13-14 TBR -1.5 13-14 TOR -1.5 13-13 MIN -1.5 We are essentially tied for 13th in MLB best records (NYM, BOS, TEX)
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What a change of tunes from a couple weeks ago.
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I wasn't aware Ref had played so much 1B. I'd do it, at least vs RHPs. Maybe play Wong at 1B vs some lefties. Man, that Casas injury is killing us.
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I was pretty high on him, but I was on others, too, who are hurt or struggling. I liked Seth Lugo, too. Here are some selected FWARs 1. Crawford 1.4 3. Houck 1.1 8. Imanaga 0.9 13. S Lugo & Yamamoto 0.8 23. T Roger 0.7 (trade talk) 27. M Perez, M Wacha 0.6 42. Severino, C Sale, Nate 0.5 The list of injured or struggling SP'ers might be longer.
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POR is up 3-2, late. Mayer is 2-4 Lugo & Jordan homered. Dobbins had another good start. 6IP 5H 2ER 3BB 7K Woo is down 3-2, late Alvarez homered.
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It looks like our rotation might be coming back down to earth.
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What an infield! 1B: Dalbec .246 (Bad on D at 1B) 2B: Valdez .427 (Bad on D at 2B) SS: Rafaela .483 (Okay on D at SS) 3B: Reyes .428 (Bad on D at 3B)
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The strawman builder strikes again.
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We all know Devers is only DH'ing, because he's a better defensive DH than Yoshida.
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Our defense at DH is worst in MLB.
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And, Yoshida has a 1.296 OPS in his last 4 games with an HR
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...or not bring Cora back, keeping Bogey and not signing Bloom to be the GM. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
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I'll start with Salem. Last night, the Salem staff K'd 17 and walked just 1 in a 3-1 win. E R-C 5IP 3H 1ER 1BB 7K The pen 4IP 2H 0ER 0BB 10K Yuten homered. Zanetello 2-2. Greenville got killed 11-1 Early had a bad start (6ER in 4IP) Castro 2-4 w DBL POR won 3-2 Olivares looked good: 5IP 1H 0ER, but 5BB and 6K Yorke continues to heat up (1-4 w HR & BB) Jorda 3-4 Woo scored 4 in the 9th to win 7-5 Guerrero got the win with 2 scoreless innings. Westbrook 2-5 w DBL Grissom 1-4 w DBL Marrero 2-4 w HR and DBL
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I know harping on the bad seems to be the way of the world, right now, so I'll join the crowd for a bit. Here are some of the weakest "links" on the Sox. 1. Defense. 2. A few batters starting off very slowly: .483 Rafaela (2nd on team in PAs) .427 Valdez (5th in PAs) .428 Reyes (10th in PAs) .245 Dalbec (12th in PAs) Maybe Valdez and Reyes see less playing time, when Grissom joins the 26, but Rafaela and Dalbec need to get closer to .600 or .700 than .400 or .500. (Yoshida .660 hasn't helped, either.) 3. It's hard to find many weaknesses with the pitching staff. Jacques (5.40) is gone. Campbell 12.40) is on the IL. Only Anderson is 14 in IP (7+ IP) with an ERA over 4.50. 7+ IP worst 3: 5.52 Anderson 4.50 Joely 4.20 Wink
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I think we've had losing records in extra inning games since 2021. This year, we are 1-3. That is one area we might be able to reverse. We play the hot Cubs, now (Thanks Astros!) Then the Giants and off to play at MIN. Day off and 2 @ ATL, followed by another day off. This should give our staff a break, and hopefully by May 10th we have some arms back for the homestand vs WSH (3) and the Rays (4.)
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Or try and stay near .500 or just under .500 vs good teams and kill the bad ones.
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Since 1967, we have not had that many periods of "flopping around near the cellar." This is what I found: 1980-1987: 5 of 8 seasons finishing 5th or 6th out of 7 teams. (1st in '87 and 3rd in '82) 1992-1993 (7th and 5th) 2012-2015: 3 last place finishes in 4 years (5th out of 5 teams) surrounding a ring season in 2013 2020-2023: 3 last place finishes in 4 years surrounding a 2nd place in '21. All-in-all, that's not so bad. To me, the worst stretch was decades with no rings. I'll take last place finishes, as long as some rings are sprinkled in the mix. 2018 seems like a decade ago, but it's not. 2021 was fun. There has been precious little, otherwise.
